Plant-soil interactions in Mediterranean forest and shrublands: impacts of climatic change.

ABSTRACT:

Background

In the Mediterranean climate, plants have evolved under conditions of low soil-water and nutrient availabilities and have acquired a series of adaptive traits that, in turn exert strong feedback on soil fertility, structure, and protection. As a result, plant-soil systems constitute complex interactive webs where these adaptive traits allow plants to maximize the use of scarce resources.

Scope

It is necessary to review the current bibliography to highlight the most know characteristic mechanisms underlying Mediterranean plant-soil feed-backs and identify the processes that merit further research in order to reach an understanding of the plant-soil feed-backs and its capacity to cope with future global change scenarios. In this review, we characterize the functiona

SUBMITTER: Sardans J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6485496 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature